Neil Landstrumm - Bambaataa Eats His Breakfast

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 20 Aug, 2009.

Landstrumm is one of the few Neils I know that is probably cooler than a horde of uber icy raspberry popsicles in a hammock, reclining in the Bahamas. His take on dubby grime & 8-bit electro ghetto tech is quite brilliant and on this new mini LP 'Bambatta Eats His Breakfast' showcases another step further along the individualistic line he's forging for himself. From the strutting electro hip-hop of 'The Coconut Kestrel' replete with those fabulous space invader gurgles, onto the simultaneously haunting & evocative 'Eva', he's re-inventing dance music for a new generation, keeping integrity in the mix whilst injecting his genre busting floor burners with a large dose of fun! 'How Do You Feel' is my stand out, gibbering gameboy burbling, an stunning sidewinding bassline that morphs & shifts like a particularly malevolent snake & a warped, dark dancehall feel with the occasional disembodied vocal sample adding to the general eerieness. This is the most fun i've had with one of this Scotsman's records yet and he's been responsible for many a blinder. Prepare for some forward thinking soundsystem shaggers with nary a FlyLo-esque sick purple wowism in sight, this is the sound of Edinburgh's darkened back rooms - TURTLE BASS in full perverted flow. Damaged as fuck.

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Following up to last year’s highly praised ‘Lord For #39’ (ZIQ206):

"One of the year’s most innovative dance records, and one of the most fun." (Wire Magazine - full page review.)

"More top quality future music from Planet Mu" (DJ - 9/10 review)

"Reshapes dubstep, rave and 90’s bleep‘n’bass into startling new forms" (Q Magazine - 4/5 review)

And now Landstrumm returns with this psychedelic 8 track minimal album that wires together dubstep and grime’s modes and fx with a penchant for 8-bit melodies, brick-a-brack percussion and a touch of rave’s rude energy.

The tracks on ‘Bambaataa Eats His Breakfast’ are infused with a joyous abandon, like the sweet melodies of opener ‘The Coconut Kestrel’ or the melted patois voices, pulverising bass and computer game melody of ‘SK1 The Damager’.

Other tracks are detailed with strange cues like the weird children’s voices on ‘Schlump Funk’ or the psychiatrist voice on ‘How Do You Feel?’. Two of the tracks ‘Say n Do’ and ‘Can’t See Me’ feature the dusted vocals of MC Profisee, rapper and producer with Scottish group Cloak x Dagger.

2LP: A THE COCONUT KESTREL EVA B HOW DO YOU FEEL? CAN’T SEE ME /FEAT PROFISEE C SAY ’N DO /FEAT PROFISEE SCHLUMP FUNK D SK1-THE DAMAGER 6 AT LE MANS CD: 1 THE COCONUT KESTREL 2 EVA 3 HOW DO YOU FEEL? 4 CAN’T SEE ME /FEAT PROFISEE 5 SAY ’N DO /FEAT PROFISEE 6 SCHLUMP FUNK 7 SK1-THE DAMAGER 8 6 AT LE MANS

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